RIVET PRESIDENT YVONNE FURTH announced she will retire from the agency Aug. 31 after 26 years with Draft/Chicago, Rivet's parent company. Lor Gold, also from Draft who fo...
SCOTT SMITH of Fulton Market Films, formerly a creative director at Leo Burnett and Element 79, is in preproduction on his first feature, "INK," slated to begin in October. Cas...
Like many a man with a vision of how a company should be grown, Archie Fletcher disagreed with the Texas-based owners of the company he was running in Skokie. When it became ...
Music Box Theatre owner William Schopf has rapidly emerged as one of Chicago's biggest players in the national film distribution business. Schopf's new venture, Music Box Fil...
This week, Paul Holtz' Class on Demand will release two must-have training DVDs, bringing to 103 the number of different software and hardware tutorials COD has produced since 2...
Israeli composer/guitarist/singer David Broza, barely known in the U.S. compared to his international superstar status, headlines a spectacular concert airing on PBS in December...
OPRAH'S AUDIENCE will soon be able to leave the studio and walk across the street to her new fashion boutique at 57 N. Carpenter. The 4,500-sq. ft. store is under constructi...
WHO HE IS: Bronx native Fred Keller was hired by Filmworkers' Reid Brody in April of last year as fresh new talent to match a new facility upgrade. WHAT HE DOES: Operates on...
CHICAGO CINE TECH, a home grown expo for visual media pros set for Sept. 27-29, will focus on new digital technology, its applications and content especially for emerging media...
JEFF GARLIN'S "I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With," based on his one-man Second City show, set in Chicago and many of the exteriors and interiors shot here and some in L.A., gets...
WHO HE IS: Patrick Friel, since 1996 the program director of 34-year old Chicago Filmmakers. WHAT HE DOES: He coordinates nine programs a year with his only co-worker, exec...
Brian Reed's BAM Studios celebrates its seventh anniversary of business this month, which also marks the completion of a year-long Harley-Davidson music project. The ever-ch...
A succession of nine established and seemingly rock solid companies, seven of them post houses, have fallen by the wayside in the past 27 months. These were the greatest nu...
As a spot in the new White Sox campaign laments, they "haven't won a championship in, like, months." Since then, however, the Sox have assumed the responsibility of offering bas...
A school as advanced as the digital arts and entertainment technologies being taught will open Sept. 17 in the historical Burnham building in the heart of Chicago's Loop. Fla...
A city which prides itself on culture and sport has now lost its advertising edge, its competitive juices. Are the foreign ad agencies on the brink of buying our baseball teams?...
Outsider editor Tim LoDolce was literally R. Kelly's right hand man as he sat next to the superstar editing Kelly's latest music video, "Same Girl," at Kelly's South Side home. ...
The loss of a large duplication contract to another company might have been the catalyst for Hi-Tide's abrupt closing Friday, June 15. A shocked staff of editors, video d...
Thea Flaum, TV show producer and trailblazer, has sold her 23-year old company to employee Dan Lombardi, and will move into "a new and exciting challenge" as head of a new non-p...
IFP/Chicago will host IFPallooza, an all-ages music event featuring eight bands July 22 at Martyrs' Restaurant and Pub, to kick off its first-ever fund-raising gala in September...
